Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t1.27
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t1.27
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On the other hand (see §§ 41, 47) Suśruta carries his principle of homology to undue lengths in postulating three joints in each of the phalanges, and (at least, according to the Traditional Recension ¹) the existence of heels in the hand.